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Since the last few years cost of energy has become an important part of Data Centers
total cost of ownership. This has lead organizations worldwide to recognize the importance
of a green strategy as a means to save energy and reduce the cost of maintenance. This
study was conducted in order to catalog computer components related data by means of
benchmarking and web research. With the objective of designing a component's database
and then the power-related data obtained from the used benchmarking tools was validated
with the use of direct measurements. The data acquired for composing this database of
components was obtained from different sources, which were both a benchmarking tool
and the web. The benchmarking tool provided information about component performance
and power consumption. After that, a web crawler was used to assign each component
an unique key and to provide additional information about them. This work provided a
database of components which can be used to support a green ICT methodology by allow-
ing the identification of the most adequate and power-efficient components, and also the
analysis of this benchmarking tool. It provides for the individuation of energy consump-
tion critical spots in a data center and allows comparisons between several components,
which may both be used in data center design.

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